freedom Quotes

Democracy passes into despotism.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.